What "children's" programming gave you nightmares? - It's ok, show on the doll where you were scarred for life.

There's an episode of Hey Arnold where he's having a dream and his grandpa is this really creepy zombie like figure, with this scratchy eerie voice. He starts cackling and his jaw falls off.

 
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The episode of Rugrats where Angelica thinks shes going to have a little brother and she has a nightmare where the baby turns into a giant monster
 
This motherfucker right here. I still remember getting ready to go to school when this episode was airing and when I saw this face as I was about to leave, it just filled me with a deep dread. It stuck with me all these years because cartoons almost never have this effect on me. I see you guys mentioning, Ren and Stimpy, Courage, Don Bluth movies, and loved them all, never felt that creep. This guy did the job though
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purpleboy said:
This shit, where everyone was crippled and all fucking die on screen, that fucked up babby me
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This cartoon was better than any right it had to be considering it was a 4kids cartoon. Glad Peter helped write that show
 
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purpleboy said:
Then there’s this nightmare fuel that only aired in Europe
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I had almost forgotten how bad Stockman got it in that show. It's not often you see a character get tortured that much in a Saturday morning cartoon. Not sure if even Stockman deserved that last one
 
KingofNothing said:
I had almost forgotten how bad Stockman got it in that show. It's not often you see a character get tortured that much in a Saturday morning cartoon. Not sure if even Stockman deserved that last one
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He keeps comings back after that as a sentient brain in a jar
 

The walrus thing from Pingu freaked me out as a kid. Still kinda weirds me the out now. Probably cause it's some uncanny valley shit.
Another thing that freaked me out was when the dog's eyes light up during the Goosebumps intro. No idea why, especially when you go back and look at it. Looks like it was edited in MS Paint. I guess I was just a pussy.
 
purpleboy said:
He keeps comings back after that as a sentient brain in a jar
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Yeah I know. I've watched the whole series. Dude takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin' But the less said about Fast Forward and onward, the better

SkeetNYeet said:
The walrus thing from Pingu freaked me out as a kid. Still kinda weirds me the out now. Probably cause it's some uncanny valley shit.
Another thing that freaked me out was when the dog's eyes light up during the Goosebumps intro. No idea why, especially when you go back and look at it. Looks like it was edited in MS Paint. I guess I was just a pussy.
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I think the main thing we can all take from this thread is that a child's imagination is their own worse enemy
 
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KingofNothing said:
Yeah I know. I've watched the whole series. Dude takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin' But the less said about Fast Forward and onward, the better
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I just pretend that Turtles Forever picks up right after Season 5, almost nothing from post-season 5 is used in it, including the artstyle
 
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I guess it's cheating because it wasn't a kid or family show. It was Rescue 911. For non-American and younger Kiwis, this was a show featuring real emergency calls with dramatic re-enactments. Even though they were "only" re-enactments, they were 100% true stories accompanied by the actual recordings of the calls. They also weren't just standard old people with heart attacks either, my parents sat me down to watch shit like a kid getting run over by a school bus, a teen ODing with huffing, and most notably, a kid getting sucked into an escalator, and a girl with beautiful, long hair getting it sucked into a pool drain and drowning. Those two in particular gave me nightmares for months, and even today I'm still uncomfortable around escalators and fear drowning.
 
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Pargon said:
Three pages and no mention of the Brave Little Toaster, huh?

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YES!!

Also for me was The Animals of Farthing Wood. So many animals die gruesome deaths in that series. The Phantom Tollbooth didn't scare me, but just kid of creeped me out.
 
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Pargon said:
Three pages and no mention of the Brave Little Toaster, huh?

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I’d personally go with when Toaster jumps into the Gears to save the Master and it keeps cutting to him getting mangled to death in the gears. Or really just the whole “watching cars sing about the lives they lived right before being crushed to death”.
Or when the vacuum snaps and tries to kill himself-FUCK, that movie was messed up!
 
MysticMisty said:
I guess it's cheating because it wasn't a kid or family show. It was Rescue 911. For non-American and younger Kiwis, this was a show featuring real emergency calls with dramatic re-enactments. Even though they were "only" re-enactments, they were 100% true stories accompanied by the actual recordings of the calls. They also weren't just standard old people with heart attacks either, my parents sat me down to watch shit like a kid getting run over by a school bus, a teen ODing with huffing, and most notably, a kid getting sucked into an escalator, and a girl with beautiful, long hair getting it sucked into a pool drain and drowning. Those two in particular gave me nightmares for months, and even today I'm still uncomfortable around escalators and fear drowning.
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I remember watching one episode involving a kid who drowned in a pool only to have the sister call him "a pain in the butt" in the interview segment.
 
The tragic fate of Antie from Honey I Shrunk the Kids upset me when I was a kid and made me sob hysterically. He was one of my favorite characters.

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I can watch all of the traumatic famous deaths in children's films- except this one. Fuck no, I always go to the next scene.
 
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